Correlated photon-pair generation in reverse-proton-exchange PPLN waveguides with integrated mode demultiplexer at 10 GHz clock

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 10288-10293

  Zhang, Qiang ^a   Xie, Xiuping ^a   Takesue, Hiroki ^b   Nam, Sae Woo ^c   Langrock, Carsten ^a   Fejer, M M ^a   Yamamoto, Yoshihisa ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMULTIPLEXING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MULTIPLEXING; QUANTUM THEORY;

COINCIDENCE TO ACCIDENTAL COUNT RATIO (CAR); INTEGRATED MODE DEMULTIPLEXERS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 34547728197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.010288     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. S. Tanzilli, H. De Riedmatten, W. Tittel, H. Zbinden, P. Baldi, M. De Micheli, D.B. Ostrowsky and N. Gisin, "Highly efficient photon-pair source using periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide", Electron. Lett. 37, 26 (2001)
2. K. Sanaka, K. Kawahara, and T. Kuga, "New High-Efficiency Source of Photon Pairs for Engineering Quantum Entanglement", Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5620 (2001).
3. A. Yoshizawa, R. Kaji, and H. Tsuchida, "Generation of polarization-entangled photon pairs at 1550 nm using two PPLN waveguides", Electron. Lett. 39, 621 (2003).
4. H. Takesue, K. Inoue, O. Tadanaga, Y. Nishida and M. Asobe, "Generation of pulsed polarization-entangled photon pairs in a 1.55-μm band with a periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide and an orthogonal polarization delay circuit", Opt. Lett. 30, 293 (2005)
5. T. Honjo, H. Takesue and K. Inoue, "Generation of energy-time entangled photon pairs in 1.5-μm band with periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide", Opt. Express 15, 1679 (2007).
6. A. K. Ekert, "Quantum cryptography based on Bell's theorem," Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 661 (1991).
7. C. H. Bennett, G. Brassard, N. D. Mermin, "Quantum cryptography without Bell's theorem," Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 557 (1992).
8. C. H. Bennett, G. Brassard, C. Crepeau, R. Jozsa, A. Peres, and W. Wootters, "Teleporting an Unknown Quantum State via Dual Classical and EPR Channels", Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 1895 (1993).
9. D. Bouwmeester, J. W. Pan, K. Mattle, M. Eibl, H. Weinfurter and A. Zeilinger, "Experimental Quantum Teleportation", Nature 390, 575 (1997).
10. K. Parameswaran, R. Route, J. Kurz, R. Roussev, M. Fejer and M. Fujimura, "Highly efficient second-harmonic generation in buried waveguides formed by annealed and reverse proton exchange in periodically poled lithium niobate", Opt. Lett., 27, 179 (2002).
11. G. N. Gol'tsinan, O. Okunev, G. Chulkova, A. Lipatov, A. Semenov, K. Smironov, B. Voronov, A. Dzardanov, C. Williams, and R. Sobolewski, "Picosecond superconducting single-photon optical detector", Appl. Phys. Lett. 79, 705 (2001).
12. R. Hadfield, M. Stevens, S. Gruber, A. Miller, R. Schwall, R. Mirin, and S-W. Nam, " Single photon, source characterization with a superconducting single photon, detector", 13, 10846 (2005).
13. X. Xie and M. Fejer, "Two-spatial-mode parametric amplifier in lithium niobate waveguides with asymmetric Y junctions", Opt. Lett. 31, 799 (2006)
14. H. Takesue and K. Inoue, "1.5-μm band quantum-correlated photon pair generation in dispersion-shifted fiber: suppression of noise photons by cooling fiber", Opt. Express, 13, 7832 (2005)
15. C. Liang, K. F. Lie, M. Medic, P. Kumar, R. H. Hadfield and S. W. Nam, "Characterization of fibergenerated entangled photon pairs with superconducting single-photon detectors", Opt. Express, 15, 1322 (2007).